Neuronal circuits and synaptic mechanisms of experience-dependent plasticity
Year of award: 2013
Grantholders
Dr Nathalie Rochefort
University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Project summary
Nathalie started her research group in 2013 at the Centre for Integrative Physiology at the University of Edinburgh. She is a sensory neuroscientist whose goal is to understand how neural activity in the visual cortex underlies our perception of a visual scene. By using the method of two-photon calcium imaging combined with electrophysiological recordings, the aim of her project is to determine how sensory experience durably modifies the activity of cortical neuronal networks.